Important Current Affairs 14th August 2017 with PDF

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Banking, SSC and Insurance aspirants can now read the Important General Awareness in PDF. Here is an update containing all the important current affairs for 14th August July 2017. You can download the Important Current Affairs 14th August 2017 with pdf capsule too.

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Under this initiative, there are various schemes like farmers weekly market, farmers mobile market & mother’s tiffin which will enable Mumbaikars to get fresh and healthy food as well as farm produce procured directly from farmers.

Organ Donation Day

India observes 13th of August as Organ Donation Day every year with an aim to raise & increase awareness and encourage people to pledge to donate organs after death.

Every year 200,000 people in India need a new kidney & 100,000 need a new liver, but only 2 to 3% of the demand for new organs is met.

1st organ donation took place in 1954 when a living donor gave a kidney to his identical twin

Svitolina wins Rogers Cup title

Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina came out with a stupendous performance as she defeated Caroline Wozniacki in straight sets to clinch women’s singles title of Rogers Cup.

This was Svitolina’s 5thttitle of WTA Tour season. She has now become the first player to ever win 3 Premier 5 titles in a single season, i.e. Dubai, Rome & Toronto.

With the win she improves to number 4 in the world rankings.

SpaceX to launch super-computer to space

SpaceX is set to launch an unmanned cargo ship towards International Space Station, including a super-computer that could direct astronauts on deep-space missions.

Liftoff of Falcon 9 rocket carrying Dragon cargo ship will take place from Florida.

This is 12th official trip for SpaceX, which has $1.6bn contract with NASA to supply astronauts living in orbit over 20 such back & forth journeys

SBI cuts staff strength

SBI has reduced its staff headcount by 6,622 in 1st quarter of FY18 to 2.73 from 2.80 lakh due to retirements & voluntary retirement scheme.

Bank plans to redeploy over 10,000 employees following merger of its associate banks & due to digitisation.

A large part of job restructuring is taking place due to merger as bank juggles its branch network to avoid having several outlets on same street

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